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Author | : Sarah L. Henderson |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501720767 |
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Can foreign donors help build new democracies? In the 1990s, public and private organizations such as USAID and the Soros Foundation poured huge amounts of money and expertise into Russia to help build the dream of a vibrant democratic society. Sarah L. Henderson argues that despite the altruistic intentions of foreign assistance agencies and domestic activists, foreign aid designed to spur civic growth has had unintended consequences. Drawing on extensive field work, survey research, and work experience for several funding agencies in Moscow in the late 1990s, Henderson focuses on donor efforts to support the emerging community of nongovernmental organizations and, in particular, on efforts to build a functioning women's movement in Russia. Her intimate knowledge of Russia's growing NGO community informs a worrisome finding: foreign aid has made a tremendous difference, but not in altogether expected or positive ways. New Russian civic groups serve either the needs of an indigenous clientele or the demands of the foreign aid bureaucracy—but rarely both. Henderson's research and experience show that while aid has kept a fledgling civic community alive, it is a civic community that is disconnected from its own domestic audience. The book suggests that large flows of foreign aid have in some ways damaged the long-term prospects for democratization in Russia.
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Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1134076762 |
Download Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Bradley |
Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : 9780749621797 |
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Reflects current events and developments in the country
Author | : Sven Eliaeson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2006-04-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134207735 |
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This book explores the idea of civil society and how it is being implemented in Eastern Europe. The implosion of the Russian empire fifteen years ago and the new wave of democratization opened a new field of inquiry. The wide-ranging debate on the transition became focused on a conceptual battle, the question of how to define "civil society". Because totalitarian systems shun self-organization, real existing civil society barely existed East of the Elbe, and the emergence of civil society took unusually complex and puzzling forms, which varied with national culture, and reflected the deep historical past of these societies. This insightful text relates the concept of civil society and developments in Eastern Europe to wider sociological theories, and makes international comparisons where appropriate. It discusses particular aspects of civil society, and examines the difficulties of establishing civil society. It concludes by assessing the problems and prospects for civil society in Eastern Europe going forward.
Author | : Anuradha M. Chenoy |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2017-09-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9811052999 |
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This book examines the evolution, contexts and politics of the structures and institutions that shape contemporary Russia. It analyses the Soviet dissolution, revealing the combination of structural and agency factors. It traces the re-emergence of Russia from a unique perspective that is neither Western nor Eurasian, but specifically Indian, located in the global South. The book looks at key theoretical concepts and practices like democratic centralism that produced an overly centralised and rigid hierarchy within the Communist Party. This book assesses the continuities and changes with the Soviet past and the way the Russian regimes of the past two decades have reinvented and reshaped them. This book provides a multifaceted interpretation of contemporary Russia for general readers and specialists.
Author | : Molly O'Neal |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2015-08-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317435087 |
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This book adopts a novel analytical approach to understanding how Russia's stalled democratisation is related to the incomplete liberalisation of the economy. Based on extensive original comparative study of Russia’s regions, the book explores the precise channels of interaction that create the mutuality of property rights, entrepreneurship, rule of law, norms of citizenship and liberal democracy. It demonstrates that the extent of democratisation varies across regions, and that this variation is connected to the extent of liberalisation of the economy. Moreover, it argues that the key factor in producing this linkage is the relative prominence of small business owners and their supporters in articulating their interests vis-à-vis regional and local administrations, especially through the institutionalisation of networks and business associations. The book develops its key theses by means of detailed analysis of the experiences of four case study regions. Overall, the book provides a major contribution to understanding the path of democratisation in Russia.
Author | : Armine Ishkanian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Armenia (Republic) |
ISBN | : 9780415541176 |
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This text considers the challenges of building democracy in post-Soviet Armenia. It argues that, contrary to the expectations of Western aid donors, who promoted civil society assuming that democratisation would follow automatically, democratic regimes have failed to materialise.
Author | : M. Steven Fish |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2005-08-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139446851 |
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Why has democracy failed to take root in Russia? After shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, some countries in the postcommunist region undertook lasting democratization. Yet Russia did not. Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it subsequently failed to maintain progress toward democracy. In this book, M. Steven Fish offers an explanation for the direction of regime change in post-Soviet Russia. Relying on cross-national comparative analysis as well as on in-depth field research in Russia, Fish shows that Russia's failure to democratize has three causes: too much economic reliance on oil, too little economic liberalization, and too weak a national legislature. Fish's explanation challenges others that have attributed Russia's political travails to history, political culture, or to 'shock therapy' in economic policy. The book offers a theoretically original and empirically rigorous explanation for one of the most pressing political problems of our time.
Author | : Valerie Sperling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429981589 |
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This study critically assesses the condition of Russia's political, economic, social, legal, and military institutions and questions the capacity of the institutions to perform the duties of a state in the modern world. Has the Russian state managed to lay the institutional groundwork for long-term stability and democratic governance? The consensus of the contributors to this book is grim. The courts have grown increasingly complex, but their ability to enhance and support democracy has remained limited. State economic institutions have been unable to collect taxes, pay government workers, fund the healthcare system, pay its soldiers, or retain value in its currency. Political mechanisms for resolving center-periphery conflicts remain ineffective, and Russia's political institutions seem less focused on serving public interests than on enriching the power of those in power.
Author | : Sven Eliæson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415368094 |
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